Check-hook



(No Model.)

GHEG'K BQQK. bra-553,117.

Patented Jam. 14A, 1896,

MARTIN EBERI'IART IIUEBNER, OF SUMNER,

ILLINOIS.

CHECK-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553, 117, dated January 14, 1896. Application filed October 25, 1895i Serial No. 566,804. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN EBERHART I'IUEBNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sumner, in the count?,T of Lawrence and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Checkrein- IIook Attachments to Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, ref erence being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective checkrcin-hook attachment to the gig-tree or harness-saddle, and consists in a device constructed substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l et the drawings is a side elevation of my improved device, showing it in position upon the harness saddle or pad and the hook thrown back in dotted lines; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the attachment, showing the position of the saddle in dotted lines.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the usual saddletree to which my iniproved device is connected, said device consistingof the base-plate B, which increases in width in a direction toward its rear end and is formed with hooks ato embrace the sides of the saddle and extend under the saine. The baseplate B has a central opening l) to allow the working of the free end of a flat spring C, which is secured at one end to the plate in anypreterred manner. Short standards c are secured to the upper side of the base-plate B upon either side of the opening l), and to and between these standards is pivoted the checkrein-hook I), which is provided with a thumb extension d for throwing it back in the position indicated in dotted lines of Fig. l of the drawings, the thumb extension being supported by the hook e at the iront end of the plate.

In securing the base-plate B to the saddle A the hooks o, are first engaged under the saddle and a headed boltf passed through a hole q and through a hole in the front end of the saddle and a nut h engaged with the screwthreaded end of the bolt, and when screwed up tightly against the under side of the saddle the base-plate will be held firnilyin position thereon. The hole g is of sufficient size to allow an;T adjustment lengthwise to adapt itself to any variation in the saddle, so that the hole will always be on line with or over the hole in the saddle. The hooks d extend out beyond the rear edge of the base-plate B and are connected by the transverse brace 2', the hooks and brace being formed when stamping out the bascplate. The hooks and trans verse brace connecting them together form a yoke to extend under the saddle and securely hold the plat-e in position against lateral displacement.

The dat spring C, which bears up against the end of the hook, forms a lock for the hook and prevents it from being accident-ally thrown back. lVhen the hook` is in position shown in full lines and the checkrein engaged therewith, the upward pressure et the spring will keep the thumb extension d tightly pressed against the rear end of the saddle, as

shown in Fig. l of the drawings, and when it is desired to release the checkrein the hook is thrown over in the position indicated in dotted lines of Fig. l of the drawings, the end of the thumb extension d being supported by the hook e. This hook e is for the purpose ot engaging the gig-pad strap therewith as well as to form a support for the thumb extension cl when the hook is thrown over to release the checkrein.

Having now full7 described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;-

1. An attachment to harness-saddles, consisting of a base-plate, having hooks upon its rear and front end, a cheek-rein hook pivcted to standards upon the plate, and a spring aeting upon the hook, substantially as and 4for the purpose specified.

2. An attachment to harness-saddles, consisting of a base-plate having hooks at its rear end which project beyond the edge ot the plate and connecting with each other by a transverse brace to form a yoke for engaging with the saddle, a central opening in the plate and a flat spring secured to the plate over the opening, standards projecting from the Plate and a check-rein hook pivoted thereto and acted upon bg the spring, substan'i iall y an d for the purpose described.

3. An attachment to harness-saddles, con

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sstng of a base-plate formed With hooks at its In testimony that I claim the above I hay@ rear end which project beyond the edge of hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 1o the plate and Connect by a transverse brace of two Witnesses.

to engage the saddle, 2t hook at the front end I w of the plate for the gig-pad strap, and a sp1-ing MARTIN EBERHRT HUEBM'R' actuated cheek-rein hook connected to stand- Vtnesses: zuds on the plate, substantially as and for the L. J. BOWMAN, purpose set forth. H. W. SAXTON. 

